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Wu Tang’s Check Mate The Wu Tang Clan expanded the multi-media empire imaginatively this week with the launch of ‘the world’s first online chess and Hip-Hop community’ WuChess.com.
“The game of chess is like a swordfight,” the notorious New York rap crew explained on the site’s home page. “You must think first, before you move. Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible.” Promising ‘hardcore chess without the stuffiness’ the Clan said the site will offer subscribers the opportunity to ‘triumph over enemies on the 64 squares’ and promised to donate some of the revenues raised to the Hip Hop Chess Federation's scholarship fund. The game’s most infamous player remains now deceased US former world champion Bobby Fischer, who played so viciously that fellow grandmaster Arthur Bisguier once declared; “if Bobby Fischer wasn't a chess player, he might have been a dangerous psychopath.” His most famous victory came against Russian ace Boris Spassky in a tournament in 1972, who speaking after his defeat admitted "When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive." “There was talk among grandmasters that Fischer hypnotized his opponents, that he undermined their intellectual powers with a dark, mystic, insidious force. Time after time, in long matches, Fischer's opponents would suffer a psychosomatic collapse,” David Edmonds and John Eidinow recalled in their book ‘Bobby
Fischer Goes to War’,” an account of the legendary battle. “There is no doubt that, like a psychopath, Fischer enjoyed that feeling of complete power over his opponent. Like a psychopath, he had no moral compunction about using his power,” they said. In more hip hop news, Ibiza aficionado Puff Daddy also revealed an unexpectedly socially aware side in an interview with the Telegraph this week, insisting his greatest pleasure comes from putting kids ‘that aren’t my own’ through college. "I'm not the party monster people make me out to be. I wouldn't even say I'm a big drinker, but I do love Cîroc vodka. Actually, I put out a statement that I have given up champagne and tequila,” Puffy claimed, “Champagne doesn't agree with my palate any more, you see.” http://www.wuchess.com Article by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
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